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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 22, 2013Cherokee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2013, 4:02 PM EDT for Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2013, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Cherokee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 22, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 3:02 AM EDT, 13 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
302 AM EDT MON JUL 22 2013

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-230715-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER-
IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA-
ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-
HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-
CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-
MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-
GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-
PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-
GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-
ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
302 AM EDT MON JUL 22 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS
AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE
SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND
HEAVY RAINFALL BEING THE MAIN THREATS. DUE TO RECENT HEAVY
RAINFALL...ANY LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVE MULTIPLE WAVES OF
THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE AN ELEVATED RISK OF FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

CDG

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:02 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
402 PM EDT MON JUL 22 2013

SCZ008-009-222030-
CHEROKEE-YORK-
402 PM EDT MON JUL 22 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CHEROKEE AND NORTHWESTERN YORK
COUNTIES THROUGH 430 PM EDT...

AT 359 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GAFFNEY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
  BLACKSBURG...

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND WET SOIL CONDITIONS MAY CAUSE A
FEW TREES AND POWER LINES TO FALL. SEEK SHELTER INSIDER AN INTERIOR
ROOM.

LAT...LON 3491 8172 3515 8174 3518 8155 3516 8132
      3491 8131

WIMBERLEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	52 min
Jul 22, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	43 min
Jul 21, 8:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	77 min
Jul 21, 8:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Laurens	3 hr
Jul 21, 9:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Anderson	3 hr
Jul 21, 9:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Laurens	3 hr
Jul 21, 9:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	83 min
Jul 21, 11:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Anderson	107 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.